Local Government Act 2019

(1) A person may apply to the council, free of charge, for the correction of an entry in the assessment record.

(2) The application may be made on any one or more of the following grounds:

(a) the entry wrongly classifies an allotment that is not rateable as rateable land;

(b) the entry should, but does not, classify an allotment as urban farm land;

(d) the entry contains some other relevant misclassification or misdescription of an allotment;

(e) the entry wrongly records ownership or occupation of an allotment;

(f) the entry wrongly designates the applicant as principal ratepayer for an allotment;

(b) must state the applicant's interest in the allotment to which the application relates; and

(c) must state the nature of the amendment that should, in the applicant's opinion, be made, including when the effect of the amendment should take place.

(4) If the application is uncontroversial, the CEO may decide the application on behalf of the council but, if it raises matters of possible controversy, the application is to be decided by the council or a council committee.

(5) The CEO, council or council committee (the decision maker) may, in writing, request further information from the applicant in relation to the application.

(6) The request under subsection (5) must be made as soon as practicable but no later than 90 days of receiving the application.

(7) The CEO must give the applicant a decision notice for the application and notify the applicant of the date the decision takes effect:

(a) as soon as practicable but no later than 90 days after receiving the application; or

(b) if the decision maker has requested further information under subsection (5) – as soon as practicable but no later than 90 days after receiving the information or notification that the applicant cannot provide the information.